The Limits of AI Models: What LLMs Still Can't Do (And Why)

It's easy to be either a hype believer or a reflexive cynic about AI models. The more useful position is the boring one in the middle: these tools are genuinely powerful and they have hard, well-understood limits. If you build with them, knowing exactly where they break is what separates a robust product from a demo that falls apart in front of a real user. So here's a tour of the real limits of today's models, and — more importantly — why each one exists. The "why" is what lets you predict fai...